Hasty Book List Features LIVID by Cai Emmons!
Date: September 28, 2022
HBL Note: Cai Emmons, who I first featured when she published Sinking Islands, has not one but two books coming out in September! Cai was diagnosed with bulbar onset ALS […]
News & Reviews
News:
Cai Emmons, author of LIVID, discusses women’s rage in The Millions essay
Date: September 26, 2022
When my mother and I used to ride the New York City subway together, she would look at the men sitting across from us with their legs splayed and launch […]
CAI EMMONS featured on KBOO podcast with Ken Jones
Date: September 26, 2022
On today’s episode, we welcome Cai Emmons, author of the new novels Unleashed from Dutton, and LIVID from Red Hen Press. She is a fiction writer, playwright, and screenwriter, whose work includes the […]
Peter Ulrich’s DRUMMING WITH DEAD CAN DANCE Featured on Louder Sound
Date: September 26, 2022
Former Dead Can Dance percussionist Peter Ulrich is to release his memoirs on November 15 through Red Hen Press. Drumming With Dead Can Dance & Parallel Adventures recounts his time […]
LitHub Features Ellen Meeropol (THE LOST WOMEN OF AZALEA COURT) with Guest Essay on Writing Into the Gaps Left by Untold Family Stories
Date: September 16, 2022
I grew up in a family reluctant to tell stories. Like about Elizabeth, my grandmother who left Russia and immigrated to Brooklyn. Did she really participate in the 1905 Menshevik […]
Electric Lit’s BOOKTAILS creates mocktail for Thea Prieto’s FROM THE CAVES!
Date: September 16, 2022
Curl up with a cocktail and Thea Prieto’s “From The Caves,” and walk the line between truth and myth, story and identity SEP 16, 2022 LINDSAY MERBAUM Winner of the […]
Cai Emmons on fear, drugs, and her fatal diagnosis
Date: September 14, 2022
It suddenly occurred to me: I had taken a risk, invited an experience I was scared of, and I’d survived it. I could—and would—take such a risk again. And it […]
Cai Emmons reflects on humor and her fatal diagnosis in Today
Date: September 14, 2022
I imagine most people, like me, receive a fatal diagnosis with surprise. We all know intellectually that we will die, but no one really feels death as a certainty. We […]
Carlos Allende, Author of COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE, Interviewed on LitHub First Draft Podcast by Mitzi Rapkin
Date: September 12, 2022
First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work, […]
CAI EMMONS reflects on writing and silence in LitHub article
Date: September 12, 2022
“The question looms large: How does one assert oneself as a person, a woman, without a speaking voice, without sound waves commandeering attention?”
Reviews:
Joy Horowitz reviews Andrew Lam’s Birds of Paradise Lost
Date: September 3, 2014
Joy Horowitz, of the Los Angeles Review of Books, praises Lam's collection of short stories in its ability to elucidate the struggles of Vietnamese immigrants. "'HOW DIFFICULT IS IT,’” Andrew […]
The SunBreak raves about Elissa Washuta!
Date: August 13, 2014
In a recent review, Chris Burlingame, writing for The SunBreak heaped praise upon Elissa Washuta's "unforgettable" book, My Body Is a Book of Rules. "It feels like you’re learning about […]
The Stranger loves the power of My Body Is a Book of Rules!
Date: August 13, 2014
Writing for The Stranger, Paul Constant praised Elissa Washuta's use of "powerful prose" in her new book My Body Is a Book of Rules. "Body is a storm of fingernails […]
Shelf Awareness loves If Not For This!
Date: August 8, 2014
In a recent review of Pete Fromm's new novel, If Not For This, Linnie Greene, writing for Shelf Awareness, praised the novel's emotional impact. "This is a tough read, but […]
Sean Arthur Joyce of Chameleonfire1 loves What Does A House Want?
Date: July 23, 2014
Sean Arthur Joyce, on the blog Chameleonfire1, has very high praise for Gary Geddes' What Does A House Want?. “Geddes writes with a sureness of hand that is remarkable, never […]
Stefanie Wortman from Monkeybicycle praises Patter’s unique take on poetic form
Date: July 16, 2014
In a recent review on Monkeybicycle, Stefanie Wortman praised Douglas Kearney's unusual and exciting use of poetic form. "Kearney’s poems play with forms both visual and generic, drawing on the […]
The Vancouver Sun lavishes praise upon Gary Geddes’ What Does A House Want?
Date: June 30, 2014
In a recent review of Gay Geddes' newest collection of poetry, M.A.C. Farrant, writing for The Vancouver Sun, lauds the poems' beauty and strength. Farrant writes, "Likewise, the poems in […]
Meredith Sue Willis on Song for Chance
Date: June 30, 2014
John Van Kirk's novel, Song for Chance— a 2013 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards finalist— was recently featured in the "Books for Readers" newsletter at Meredith Sue Willis.com. Of […]
Free-Fall” through Jessica Piazza’s Interrobang with The Rumpus”
Date: June 16, 2014
Over the weekend, Jessica Piazza received a great review from The Rumpus. Melissa Leigh Gore writes, “Each poem thrums with a sense of purpose, contributes to a complex web of […]
KCET calls Douglas Kearney one of the most progressive poets writing in this age.””
Date: June 6, 2014
Mike Sonksen, writing for KCET, heaps high praise upon Douglas Kearney and his newest book, Patter. “Wielding an undeniable command of the poetic line, Kearney's poems mix humor, irreverence, adventure, […]